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heaped-up

adj. thrown together in a pile; "a desk heaped with books"; "heaped-up ears of corn"; "ungraded papers piled high" [syn: heaped, piled, cumulous]

Usage examples of "heaped-up".

Lit by sweet-smelling gyb torches, it was elegant and well ventilated, but cluttered with heaped-up carpets and piles of richly worked cushions, as well as overflowing platters of meat, fruit and breads.

He also sees the pile of heaped-up arms, the broken metal, the rags and the mud, and through the interstices of the wooden steeps the booted feet of the mynheers running helter-skelter down.

He had darted past the salvage man and stood in the drive staring at the yard--at mounds of heaped-up car parts, bumpers and doors and engine blocks and rims--and at mountains of balding tyres.

We spiralled in from the sea over an ancient suspension bridge the colour of rust, and in amongst the heaped-up buildings of a peninsula hill at more than advisable speed.